Henry Lefroy

Sir Henry Bruce Lefroy KCMG was the eleventh Premier of Western Australia.

Lefroy was born in Perth, Western Australia onMarch 1854. His father was Anthony OGrady Lefroy, Colonial Treasurer of Western Australia for overyears. Educated initially at Mrs McKnights School in Perth later he travelled to England, where he continued his studies at the Preparatory School at Exmouth, then at Elstree and finally at Rugby from 1868 to 1872. In 1893 Lefroy returned to Western Australia to take over management of his fathers farm at Walebing, which he inherited upon his fathers death in 1897. Lefroy was a member of the Victoria Plains Road Board from 1872 until 1899, and its chairman from 1876 to 1897. In 1874 he was appointed a Justice of the Peace, and he was for a time a member of the local Board of Education. He married Rose Agnes Wittenoom in Perth onApril 1880, and they had three sons and a daughter.

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